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Show Jens Denison has been awarded the contract to haul coal from the Morrison mines to. the Central school building. Miss Retta Snow will give a recital re-cital in the Ephraim opera house this evening for the benefit of the Snow Academy. II. G. Fredrickson and his son Sidney are working for the Mammoth Mam-moth Reservoir company near Fair-view, Fair-view, building a weir dam. II. R. Thomas, foreman of the Morrison coal mines, who has been quite ill for ten weeks past, is able lo be around again and will resume his duties at the mines within the next week. Local evvs. Thanksgiving services will be held in the Tabernacle to-morrow at 11 a. in. P. A. Poulson has been appointed appoint-ed a Recorder in the Manti Temple, Tem-ple, and entered upon his duties in that capacity yesterday. The Eighth grade class of the public school was dismissed yesterday yes-terday for the remainder of this week, owing to the indisposition of Principal Justesen. The Presbyterian congregation of Manti unites with the Ephraim congregation in the Ephraim church on Thanksgiving this year; services servi-ces begin at 12 o'clock. All are welcome. The pay roll of the Sterling Coal & Coke company exceeded two thousand dollars this month, the bulk of which is expended in this neighborhood. The company are now employing 38 miners, and the development work in progress is steadily making room for more men in the mines. The output is increasing every month and there is a ready market for the coal. Manti is visited this week by a United States Navy Recruiting party, who are receiving recruits for the various departments of the naval service. The party is composed com-posed of Recruiting Officer Lieut. J. P. Morton, Surgeon II. C.Curl, Chief Master-at-Arms F. Joseph-son, Joseph-son, Yeoman, 2nd class, S. II. Peters, Pe-ters, Yeoman, 3rd class, R. B. Weeks, Coxswain J. 13. Leake, Hospital Apprentice F. S. Barlow and Hospital Apprentice E. T. Kibbe. A number of applications have been reported but the accepted accept-ed list is not yet completed. If all persons who are so anxious to know how the Tabernacle would look if finished, would put up about twenty-five dollars apiece, they could soon have their desires in that direction gratified. Mr. David R. Parry of Salt Lake and Miss Katie Belle Harmon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Harmon, will be married to-day. A reception will be held at the home of the bride this evening. The Sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper are to be administered admin-istered at the Presbyterian church next Sabbath at 11 o'clock a. m. Preparatory services will be held Friday at 7 o'clock p. m., and Saturday Sat-urday 3 p. m. All are cordially invited. There will be a dance in the Prof. A. C. Smyth has resigned as leader of the Manti Tabernacle choir. For more than a year Mr. Smyth has been in rather feeble health and he could not give the position the attention which it required, re-quired, hence his resignation was tendered, which is a matter of great regret. Prof. Smyth is one of the most polished musicians of the State, a composer and arranger of rare talent, and his retirement is a distinct loss to the musical profession. profes-sion. It will be no easy matter to find a successor for Prof. Smyth's place. Ezra Shomaker returned home Friday from an extended visit to Alberta, Canada, where he visited with his sons and looked after his business interests. Just before leaving Cardston, Mr. Shomaker says a serious accident befell J. C. Cahoon, Sr., which almost proved fatal. Mr. Cahoon was suffering with a cold and went to the drug store to get a bottle of cough medicine. med-icine. Through an error of the druggist he. was given a bottle of carbolic acid, and without noticing the mistake Mr. Cahoon took a draught of the poison. Antidotes were at once administered to counteract coun-teract the effects of the poison until un-til a physician arrived. When Mr. Shomaker came away Mr. Cahoon was somewhat recovered, but was still very ill. Assembly tlall, December 5th, tor all those wishing to attend, over 18 years of age. All above that age are cordially invited. Proceeds for the benefit of the South Ward Sunday school. Sperry's orchestra in attendance. Ilyrum Denison, chairman of committee. For the International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago, Nov. 29th to Dec. 6th, 1902, the Rio Grande Western railway will make the low rate of $46.80 from Manti to Chicago Chi-cago and return. Tickets on sale Nov. 25th to 30th, inclusive, good for return leaving Chicago up to and including Dec. 8th,' 1902. Ed Nash of Salt Lake and Mrs. Annie Bemus of Gunnison, are confined in the county jail awaiting await-ing trial at the next term of the district court, on a charge of adultery adul-tery alleged to have been committed commit-ted at a Gunnison hotel a week ago last Sunday. The parties had a hearing before Justice Gledhill at Gunnison last Saturday, and in default of bonds were committed to the county jail. Nash has a wife and family living in Salt Lake, and Mrs. Bemus' husband is employed em-ployed as a section hand on the railroad in Sevier county. Deeds, mortgages, mining and other blanks at this office. 2octs a dozen by mail. |